The Last of Us Part II: Three Days in Seattle

On their first day in the city, Ellie and Dina head for a domed building they call the Dome and find a synagogue that has been turned into a ration distribution centre. It is where the two of them have one of their first deep conversations about faith and the state of the world. The building's exterior is the Daniels Recital Hall: a church sanctuary built in 1908 on the southwest corner of Fifth Avenue and Marion Street, reopened as a recital hall in 2009 that uses the old church acoustics.

Visitor guidance: The hall hosts concerts in its old church sanctuary.

Cornered in the street on her first day, Ellie takes shelter in the Pinnacle Theatre with Dina, and the pair keep coming back to it after every trip out into the city. It is in there that Ellie finally admits she is immune and learns that Dina is pregnant; it is also where the arc ends, with Abby walking in, killing Jesse, shooting Tommy and overpowering both women before letting them go. The game even copies the real theatre's sign. It belongs to the Paramount on Pine Street, a 2,807-seat venue that opened in 1928 and sits on the National Register.

Visitor guidance: The Paramount is a performing arts venue at 9th Avenue and Pine Street; its sign is the one the game copies.

One of the game's most unpleasant set pieces happens in the city's convention centre. You come in through a high window and drop to the ground floor through a series of jumps, and then have to deal with a stalker: a second-stage Infected that moves incredibly fast, stays out of sight until it is far too late, and kills almost instantly. The game calls it the Seattle Conference Center. It is the real Washington State Convention Center, whose Arch building runs along Pike Street.

Visitor guidance: The convention centre hosts PAX West and Emerald City Comic Con.

The game's Lakehill Hospital appears in both halves of the story. In Ellie's run she tracks a WLF member, Nora Harris, to the hospital and tortures her for information about Abby. In Abby's, the building is overrun by the Infected, and Abby and Lev cross it for the medical supplies needed to amputate Yara's arm. The hospital is fictional, but its inspiration is real: Harborview Medical Center, King County's public hospital on First Hill, run by UW Medicine.

Location precision: The game names only 'the hospital'; the pin marks Harborview, the real hospital its fictional Lakehill is modelled on.

Visitor guidance: Harborview is a working hospital, not a sightseeing stop; look at it from outside.

After being rescued by Lev, Yara's younger brother, Abby reaches the aquarium and finds Owen there; he plans to sail to Santa Barbara, where the Fireflies are supposedly regrouping. Later Abby and Lev come back to find Owen and his pregnant girlfriend Mel dead, with a map leading to Ellie's theatre hideout. On Ellie's side of the story she is the one who came here, to Abby's hideout, and killed them both. The real Seattle Aquarium has stood on the Elliott Bay waterfront since 1977.

Visitor guidance: The aquarium is on the waterfront at Pier 59.

Abby's home in the game's Seattle is inside a stadium, where the WLF have turned a sports venue into somewhere to live: the field itself opens out in front of her when she comes out inside it, and there is livestock, produce and a school for younger children inside the shell. The game calls it the SoundView Stadium and models it on Lumen Field, in the SoDo district, where the Seahawks and the Sounders still play in front of 68,740.

Location precision: The game's stadium is the renamed SoundView Stadium; the pin marks Lumen Field, the real venue the game models it on.

Visitor guidance: Lumen Field is in the SoDo district, south of downtown.

In a memory, a younger Abby plays around in one of the wheel's cabins with Owen, and the drop into the water far below becomes the whole scene. She is dealing with a fear of heights; he talks her into the leap, and the game puts you in Abby's shoes, looking over the edge before she jumps. The real Seattle Great Wheel has stood at Pier 57 on Elliott Bay since June 2012: 53 metres tall, and then the tallest Ferris wheel on the West Coast.

Visitor guidance: The wheel is on the Elliott Bay waterfront at Pier 57.

The international district has a short appearance in the game, and players can walk right up to its gate: the Historic Chinatown Gate, which stands at the west end of South King Street, 45 feet tall and made of steel and plaster. Abby has to make her way through the area, dealing with human enemies and Infected alike. The real gate was unveiled on 9 February 2008 and still stands over the street, in the district it marks.

Visitor guidance: The gate is a street landmark, not a building: stand under it on South King Street. The Wing Luke Museum is nearby in the district.

Infiltrating the Seraphite island to rescue Lev, Abby sees the Space Needle in the distance, and the way the game's water surrounds it seems to imply that the whole of Belltown has gone completely underwater. The real tower stands at 400 Broad Street in Lower Queen Anne: 605 feet high, built in the Seattle Center for the 1962 World's Fair, and once the tallest building west of the Mississippi. Elevators take visitors up to an observation deck 520 feet above the ground in 41 seconds.

Visitor guidance: The observation deck is open to visitors, 520 feet up.